In Therory: Best way to store SOAP results for filtering (PHP)?

Trying to figure out the best way to handle this, but since I essentially work alone, i figured that SO community could help. Not looking for code, just ideas.

I am developing a web app for my company. Total rebuild. We are moving the product search from a database table we update nightly to a SOAP service that stores info for all devices in our industry (semiconductors). Personally I wish it were in the DB still, but the decision was made before I started, but anywho...

The SOAP publisher allows us to use essentially a开发者_如何学编程ny parameter we would like about a product in the output, but restricts the input params to two, part # and manufacturer.

Long story short is they suggest taking the result set they provide and winnowing it down via search filters on our side.

Here is my (planned) approach:

1. make initial request via SOAP
2. if request returns 0, message user else continue
3. Take SOAP response (WILL BE LIMITED TO 150 RESULTS MAX) and
4. convert to json
5. Send json to view and use javascript/jquery to page and filter
6. If user has js disabled, display all results.

Alternate options involve using / filtering php arrays

I haven't done much beyond writing the small SOAP handler script. I now have results sets but am trying to figure how best to handle.